the fact that harry reid feels some amount of pressure. i mean, maybe it's just the climt that we're in right now. or that at least he has to walk back the statements and release a statement that says i intend to introduce this or he doesn't actually say that but that it will come probably to the floor in, you knowing, early this year is better than, i don't know, can it really pass the house? right? >> there's a real underlying policy problem. there's 250, 300 million guns in the united states many of them semiautomatic handguns. there's 8.5 million people in the country that have consealed carry permits, you know. to push something that would really be dramatic is just a huge policy haul. i think reid's interest in trying to get something going has to do more with the something than the broader politics. >> i'm confused. it might have more to do with the something than the actual thing. >> yeah. with that kind of comparative modesty of the actual proposals. >> this is why we have you on the show because you draw phrases like comparative